Salient to Investors:
Michael Snyder writes:
- Global debt is at record highs, too big to fail banks have never been more reckless, and global financial markets have never been more primed for a collapse. Most people lack the patience to wait for long-term trends to play out so if the stock market is not crashing today, they think that everything must be fine.
- Commodity prices crashed a few months ahead of the financial crisis of 2008, and we are seeing a repeat. The Bloomberg Commodity Index is down 26% over the past 12 months to a 13-year low. Copper, iron ore, aluminum, zinc, nickel, lead, tin and lumber prices are leading indicators and their falling prices are forecasting a global economic meltdown. The FTSE 350 Mining Index dropped to the lowest since 2009 this week. Gold and copper are near the lowest in at least 5 years, and crude oil is down to $50.
- The Australian and Canadian dollars are at 6-year lows, and the Brazilian real is at a 10-year low all vs. the US dollar – all commodity resource nation currencies. The Indian rupee is at a 17-year low vs. the US dollar because manufacturing is slowing, and if Americans are not buying, the Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese are not making things.
- The junk bond market collapsed a few months before the last stock market crash and junk bonds are starting to collapse again.
Andy Pfaff at MitonOptimal calls the commodity bear market a train wreck in slow motion.
Marc Faber at The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report sees a stock market decline of easily 20% to 40% and cites the growing number of companies trading below their 200-day moving average, stock declines leading advances, and the high number of new 12-month lows.
Read the full article at http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/commodities-collapsed-just-before-the-last-stock-market-crash-so-guess-what-is-happening-right-now
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